Simon Bridges

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Yeah, I was thinking that it would sort of be like returning to a bicameral parliament but not really.. Where the Electorates would sit in Parliament as a crossbench of independents whose sole job is to vote how their electorate demands, rather than along their own party line.

Party List MPs would be tasked with developing and leading policy/legislative change and bringing it to the house for all to vote on, which would mean Parties would have to find ways to make policies palatable to the majority of Electorates for it to pass. They can't just rely on their own numbers or that of a coalition.

Then, electorate voters may push for a by-election if they can get 40% of their electorate to sign a petition demanding it. That should hopefully keep electorate MPs in line and not have them go rogue, getting cosy with one political party in return for favours.

And, outside of electorate changes, I want the voting age abolished.

That could work well for the most part. There might be problems, though if the needs of two or more electorates happen to mean they're always likely to be opposed to each other - that would cause conflict.

And I can't agree re voting age, if only because human brains aren't fully developed until around the mid 20's.

Ahhh, I'll make a new thread for the voting age stuff, Lillith! <3 Haven't had a good bit of banter about politics in a long time, to be fair. Been keeping off social media and forums.

I do hear you about the conflict between electorates. I think that would be a feature, not a bug.. Haha.